For Life's Sake

For Life's Sake

Photograph

Basil C. Levine

Maker
American, 1928–2011

For Life's Sake

ca. 1985
Gelatin silver print
Image: 7 1/2 × 9 7/16 in. (19 × 24 cm)
Paper: 7 15/16 × 10 in. (20.2 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Jonathan Levine, 2024
2024.0041.0005
Inscriptions Inscribed in blue ink on verso, C: Roll 3 \ #9
Printed on paper label and affixed to verso, BC: FOR LIFE'S SAKE -- Engineer Tony Grant, at the Clairol Appliance \ Research Center in Stamford, Conn., checks heat readings from first \ shipment of hairdryers that meet new electrical safety standard set \ by Underwriters Laboratories. The advanced standard, which takes \ effect Oct. 1, requires all hairdryers manufactured after that date \ to be designed with a safety feature that will prevent an electrical \ shock -- should a "plugged in" dryer fall in water, even when the \ on-off switch is in the [underlined] OFF position. \ - 0 - \ From: John A DeMilia/Dorothy Pirovano (312) 558-1770 \ Public Communications Inc. \ 35 East Wacker Drive \ Chicago, IL 60601 \ For: CLAIROL INC. \ Slug: FOR LIFE'S SAKE \ Neg. No.: 78895-3-5 & 78895-3-9
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